[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] inserting symbols into qgis

[John C. Tull]

On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

>
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:45:17 -0700, "John C. Tull"
> <john.tull at wildnevada.org> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Sorry to hijack the topic (and the dev x-post), but this thread
>> prompted me to bring up a general issue with custom symbols. The
>> current structure for adding new symbols on OS X is pretty poor
>> (perhaps on other OS's as well?). It requires the user to copy the
>> relevant svg files to a location inside of an application bundle.
>> Hence, the changes have to be done with every update of the program.
>>
>> It would be much better if there was an svg directory inside of the
>> same directory where plugins are stored, ~/.qgis on OS X. This would
>> maintain symbols across versions and new builds of the program.
>
> Hi all.
> This has been discussed several times. I think a mechanism analogous  
> to the
> py plugin installer would be the best, with the possibility of adding
> symbols both from various repos and from local directories.
> I think there should be a ticket open on this: could you please  
> check, and
> if not, add it?
> Thanks.

The repo idea is covered in ticket 1063:
http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1063

Another good idea regarding organization of svg symbols is to have the  
sub-folders show up as available categories for users to select. This  
would allow subsets of icons to be viewable rather than all icons at  
once. You could still choose to view all at once, under the proposed  
idea:
http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1066

As there was no ticket that I could find specific to the idea of  
having user-provided svg symbols located in a location separate from  
the application or an application bundle on at least some OS's, I've  
created a ticket for that:
http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2027

Cheers,
John